I have just been reading this article on the internet concerning the UK census http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/230632/The-census-is-just-a-licence-to-snoop-on-British-people

Now I am not concerned politically or which newspaper is reporting whatever. However, when I see the cost of 485 million pounds, I am astounded.

We are bankrupt and we are going to spend that much on what can be considered an intrusion on our privacy, which goes beyond what I consider normal for a census. Looking at some of the answers from last census and the number of people who didn't fill their forms in, it rather makes a mockery of things.

32 pages of intrusive questions.

Couldn't it have been put back for 5 years?

Also considering how many households are on the internet, wouldn't it have been less costly to have done an online form. People who couldn't use the internet could have been made to go to the library or a place nominated to allow the form to be filled in.

Now I have got that off my chest, I will drink a nice glass of Chardonnay or two and cobblers to it all.